Chop Suey Presents Fever The Ghost // Morgan Delt
Vaporland // Terman Shanks

Chop Suey presents

Fever The Ghost

In their very brief existence, Fever The Ghost have already made quite an impression with their uncanny, spectacular live performances, quickly becoming the one band on the tip of everyone’s tongues within LA’s Silverlake/Echo Park scene. While Fever The Ghost’s grandiose rush on the senses dependably transports audiences into their strange universe, what’s even more remarkable is how fully-formed their sophisticated sound arrives, cleverly weaving addictive hooks into their forward-thinking psych-pop pastiche. Fever The Ghost’s songs have that rare quality where you can go home humming them after hearing the band live just once with melodies that linger in the mind.

On their adventurous debut EP Crab In Honey, Fever The Ghost not only delivers on that promise but also ups the ante on this expertly-crafted collection of interstellar pop with surprises lurking around every corner. Clocking in just under 20 minutes, Crab in Honey manages to pack in the ideas covering a wide range of sonic terrain, while never drifting too far from their melodic center. Easy to get into with inviting hooks, Crab In Honey grows more complex and deep with each successive listen.

A tight shuffling groove patiently pushes along the rocking skyward opener “Calico” as singer/guitarist Casper delivers his vocal with a catchy, yet understated cool. Riding a tasteful disco strut, “Source” makes the most of the linear structure with bouncy verses, deceivingly complex synth-work, and a very sticky chorus. The EP’s second half haunts on the darker yet dreamy title track “Crab In Honey” and the ethereal EP closer “We’ll Never Know The Place” introduces a change of instrumentation and breathtaking vocal arrangements to keep us guessing, leaving us eager to hear what comes next.

Mastered by Bob Ludwig (David Bowie, Nirvana, Radiohead), Crab In Honey EP will be out January 21st on Complicated Game.

https://www.facebook.com/fevertheghost
http://twitter.com/FeverTheGhost
http://soundcloud.com/fever-the-ghost

Morgan Delt

“Psychic Death Hole,” the ultra-limited six-song cassette released early in 2013, introduced the world to Morgan Delt’s self-produced, genre-bending flavor of brown acid-dosed flowerdelia. Equal parts Odyssey & Oracle’ and ‘Parable of Arable Land’ Morgan Delt’s debut S/T LP expands on those initial tracks and brings forth one a fully realized glimpse into the California native’s twisted brain.

Morgan cites influences from Curt Boettcher to West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band and rounds it out with golden age sunset stip heavies like The Byrds and Love. It’s all in there—obsessively studied, mastered and then mutated. Side one opens with the one/two punch of ‘Make My Grey Brain Green’ and ‘Barbarian Kings’ blasting apart 40 years of pop- psych and stitching it back together in a way that is both familiar but also refreshingly new. ‘Beneath the Black and Purple’ soars with a chiming guitar grumble right out of ‘8 Miles High.’’ & “Chakra Sharks” squirms it’s way out of the speakers like a snake - oiled up with the stink of not only what came before, but what’s happening NOW. The drums pound hard & heavy, while the backups “la la- la” all over your noggin like a Frankenstein version of The Flaming Lips & Thee Oh Sees. Each track worms its way into your brain and takes hold.

The finale, ‘Main Title Sequence,’ is all Stu Phillips- worship, right out of the soundtrack to your favorite 60’s cult classic with it’s angelic backing vocals and lilting tremolo lead but somehow still buzzes with a modern current. As Morgan so keenly described his notion on the current state of genre bending music “I think we’ve become unstuck in time and everything is going to happen all at once from now on.”

http://www.facebook.com/morgandeltmusic
http://morgandelt.bandcamp.com/
http://soundcloud.com/inflatabletapes

Vaporland

Vaporland features members of 3 of Sub Pop's early flagship bands: Love Battery (Ron Nine and Kevin Whitworth), the Fluid (Garret Shavlik), and TAD (Kurt Danielson). These 4 lads got together for no other purpose than to rock & have fun, later adding Katie Scarberry on percussion and vox. Ron, Kevin, Garrett, & Kurt have all been in many other bands than those mentioned here, including bands that still exist and which are very active here in Seattle, but despite this they all found that they were missing something, that there was a music lurking on the margins of their collective (sub)consciousness that none of them had yet found a way to express, and this frustration obsessed them, compelling Ron and Kurt to discuss it incessantly, until one day, when Garrett and Kevin happened to stop in, they decided to play, and happily all 4 Seattle music veterans simultaneously experienced the epiphany that is Vaporland: the foggy, dreamy, dark yet luminous interzone between waking and sleep, a hypnogogic tranceworld of guttermazes and hallucinatory images newly emerged from the synchronic reservoir, a place we all know but forget once we fully wake up each morning. These sinister cads & vicious reprobates (and Katie too) would like to welcome you to Vaporland with their first, raw, primitive, loose but tense and true recordings, songs that reveal that grimy, dangerous blues-drenched licks can coexist with angular, driving post punk and ethereal, psychedelic pop and who knows what else to create a soundtrack for your worst and most relentless nightmares and your fondest, most fleeting dreams.

http://www.reverbnation.com/vaporland
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vaporland/119074764811482

Terman Shanks

https://www.facebook.com/TermanShanks/

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